Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, [28 February 1791]

From Tobias Lear1

[Philadelphia, February 28, 1791]

Sir

The President has commanded me to transmit the enclosed to you from Mr. Thatcher2 and request that you will give it the consideration it may merit. The President also requests that you will take occasion to converse with some others of the gentlemen from Massachusetts on this subject and to mention it likewise to some from New Hampshire.

I have the honor to be   very respectfully & sincerely   Your Most Obedt. Servant

Tobias Lear

28th. Feby. 1791

LC, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Lear, a native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and a graduate of Harvard, was Washington’s secretary.

2. George Thacher, member of the House of Representatives from the District of Maine.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, [28 February 1791]
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    Lear, Tobias
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    28 February 1791

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, [28 February 1791],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-08-02-0073. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 8, February 1791 – July 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, pp. 146–147.]

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